1944-19451940s NEWSREELS
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| 01:17:41 0.57 |
"THE CAPTURE OF MANILA". "SPECTACULAR FILMS OF FINAL DASH INTO PHILIPPINE CAPITAL AND BATTLE IN CITY"
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| 01:17:50 9.57 |
PHILIPPINE CIVILIANS WATCH AMERICAN MILITARY VEHICLES & MEN CROSSING STREAM ON WAY TO MANILA.
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| 01:18:01 20.57 |
U.S. MORTAR UNIT FIRES INTO ENEMY POSITIONS. TANK FIRES INTO DISTANT VILLAGE. MLS GI ARTILLERY UNITS FIRING HUGE CANNONS.
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| 01:18:22 41.57 |
GENERAL MACARTHUR AND OTHER OFFICERS CROSS RIVER ON LARGE WOODEN RAFT. MACARTHUR RIDES BY IN JEEP, SALUTES.
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| 01:18:41 60.57 |
JAPANESE BARGE IN STREAM BEING FIRED UPON. BARGE SPEEDS TO SHORE.
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| 01:18:49 68.57 |
GIS CROWDED INTO ROWBOATS ROW ACROSS RIVER. ELS JAPANESE S0OLDIERS SEEN RUNNING ON SHORE ACROSS THE RIVER.
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| 01:19:07 86.57 |
MONTAGE GI WOUNDED BEING CARRIED ON STRETCHERS. GI HOLDS UP BLOOD PLASMA BOTTLE FOR BUDDY BEING TREATED BY MEDIC, COMPELS NARRATOR TO MAKE PITCH FOR BLOOD DRIVE.
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| 01:19:17 96.57 |
MONTAGE PARATROOPERS JUMPING FROM CARGO PLANES, POV PLANE FLYING ALONGSIDE.
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| 01:19:40 119.57 |
PARATROOPS RUN INTO THICK JUNGLE AS THEY EXPERIENCE BITTER RESISTANCE FROM JAPANESE.
PARATROOPER AIMS, FIRES RIFLE INTO JUNGLE, AS DO OTHERS IN BKGD. |
| 01:19:52 131.57 |
MONTAGE DESTROYED HANGARS AND JAPANESE PLANES ARE SEEN AS GIS TAKE AIRFIELD AFTER STUBBORN RESISTANCE. GIS DIG OUT BOMBS BURIED AS MINES IN AIRFIELD GROUNDS.
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| 01:20:08 147.57 |
BAZOOKA TEAMS FIRE INTO JAPANESE CAVES & POSITIONS.
GI DROPS HAND GRENADE INTO JAPANESE TANK, IT EXPLODES. |
| 01:20:28 168.57 |
GIS UNDER FIRE, RUNNING IN STREETS. ARTILLERY CREW SET UP IN MIDDLE OF STREET, FIRE THEIR SMALL CANNON. GI FIRES HIS RIFLE FROM BEHIND DEBRIS OF BUILDING.
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| 01:20:38 178.57 |
FILIPINO NATIVE RUNNING TOWARDS CAMERA, HANDS GRENADES TO AMERICANS AS HE RUNS BY THEM.
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| 01:20:46 186.57 |
PHILIPPINE GIRL WITH EMPTY BOTTLES IN HAND, MAKES DASH FOR WATER FOR GIS.
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| 01:20:49 189.57 |
GI STANDS ON STREET CORNER. AIMS, FIRES HIS AUTOMATIC RIFLE (BAR).
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| 01:20:54 194.57 |
"LIBERATION". MONTAGE PHILIPPINE CHILDREN RINGING HUGE CHURCH BELL, PEOPLE, JUMPING, WAVING IN JUBILATION. GIS BEING HANDED BOTTLES OF BEER BY GIRL AS THEY ADVANCE INTO VILLAGE. GIS IN JEEP OPENING, DRINKING BEER.
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| 01:21:19 218.57 |
GIS POUR BEER FROM THEIR METAL HELMETS INTO GLASSES HELD BY OTHER GIS. GIS DRINK FROM HELMETS.
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| 01:21:29 229.57 |
MONTAGE PHILIPPINE COLLABORATORS ARE PARADED THROUGH STREETS WITH HANDS ON THEIR HEADS.
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| 01:21:49 249.57 |
LONG COLUMN OF "NEGRITOS", PHILIPPINE AFRICAN AMERICAN TRIBESMEN, WALK DOWN ROAD, TOWARDS CAMERA, RIFLES STRAPPED TO BACKS, MARCHING TO JOIN AMERICANS.
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| 01:21:55 255.57 |
MONTAGE AERIAL VIEWS OF SMOKE RISING FROM BUILDINGS IN MANILA, AS JAPANESE GO ON RAMPAGE OF DESTRUCTION AS THEY RETREAT TO POSITIONS IN SOUTH MANILA. FIRES, EXPLOSIONS.
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| 01:22:44 304.57 |
MONTAGE INTENSE FIRE DESTROYS BUILDINGS AS PEOPLE RUN THROUGH STREETS, SOME WITH THEIR BELONGINGS TRYING TO SURVIVE THE FIERY TRAP. SWARMS OF MEN, WOMEN REFUGEES, SOME WITH BABIES IN ARMS HEAD TOWARDS U.S. LINES FOR HELP, SHELTER. ELDERLY MAN CARRYING BABY IN ARMS. DISASTER.
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| 01:23:31 350.57 |
WOMAN REFUGEE WITH LARGE PIG WALKING WITH HER.
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| 01:23:51 371.57 |
GI SHARES RATIONS WITH SEVERAL HALF-STARVED SMALL CHILDREN.
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| 01:24:02 381.57 |
AMERICAN TROOPS RUNNING THROUGH SMOKE-FILLED RUINS OF CITY, UNDER JAPANESE FIRE.
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| 01:24:13 392.57 |
GI, BACK TO CAMERA, FIRES RIFLE FROM BEHIND CORNER OF BUILDING, AS PHILIPPINE CIVILIAN, HIT WHILE HELPING AMERICANS, LIES WOUNDED IN STREET SEVERAL YARDS IN FRONT OF GI. SECTION OF BUILDING ON FIRE COLLAPSES JUST AS GI RUNS BY.
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| 01:24:23 402.57 |
GI CARRIES WOUNDED BUDDY ON BACK WHILE UNDER FIRE, AS GIS IN F/G PROVIDE PROTECTIVE FIRE. GI WITH WOUNDED LEG IS HELPED BY TWO GIS, AS THEY RUN, UNDER FIRE, TOWARDS AMERICAN POSITIONS.
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| 01:24:37 416.57 |
GENERAL MACARTHUR ENTERS MANILA PRISON WHERE AMERICAN CIVILIANS WERE KEPT IMPRISONED FOR THREE YEARS BY JAPANESE INVADERS. PRISONERS, MANY WOMEN JOYFULLY GREET MACARTHUR WHO HAD PROMISED TO RETURN.
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| 01:25:03 442.57 |
"RETURN TO GUAM". "U. S. FORCES RE-TAKE FIRST AMERICAN SOIL LOST TO JAPANESE IN 1941". VARIOUS SCENES OF AIR AND NAVAL BOMBARDMENT OF GUAM BY U.S. PLANES, SHIPS, BEFORE INVASION.
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| 01:25:32 471.57 |
CU VIEW OF NAVY GUNS FIRING. EXPLOSIONS SEEN ON ISLAND FROM BOMBARDMENT. MIGHTY DISPLAY AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLES, LANDING CRAFT, SPEED TOWARDS SHORE.
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| 01:26:43 542.57 |
ADVANCE PARTIES OF GI WADE ASHORE IN WAIST DEEP WATER. THEY HIT BEACH, IMMEDIATELY DIG IN, IN THE FACE OF THE ENEMY.
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| 01:26:52 551.57 |
LANDING BOATS UNDER BOMBARDMENT BY JAPANESE GUNS.
ONE GETS HIT, EXPLODES, SINKS. |
| 01:27:19 578.57 |
MARINES DRIVE INLAND, THROUGH JUNGLE.
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| 01:27:34 593.57 |
MEDICS CARRY WOUNDED GI IN STRETCHER. NARRATOR CAUTIONS AGAINST OVER-OPTIMISM WHICH WILL MEAN "MORE AMERICANS KILLED AND WOUNDED". VEILED PROPAGANDA PITCH?
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| 01:27:39 598.57 |
MARINE MAJOR GENERAL GIEGER VISITS FRONT SHAKES WITH GI FOR, "JOB WELL DONE".
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| 01:27:54 613.57 |
"LATEST PICTURES OF ALLIED PUSH INTO NORMANDY"
VARIOUS SCENES SECRETARY OF WAR STIMSON & GENERAL EISENHOWER VISIT INVASION FRONT. VARIOUS SCENES WINSTON CHURCHILL INSPECTS CAPTURED NAZI PLATFORMS FOR LAUNCHING ROCKET BOMBS THAT HAVE PLAGUED LONDON. CHURCHILL USES CANE TO LIFT HIS HAT TO SAY "GOODBYE" AS HE LEAVES AMERICAN SECTOR IN LAUNCH. |
| 01:28:29 648.57 |
BRITISH BOMBERS LAUNCH GIANT AIR ASSAULT. VARIOUS AERIAL SCENES CLUSTERS OF LIGHTED FLARES LIGHTING TARGETS ON GROUND, FOLLOWED BY BOMBING OF MARKED TARGETS. AERIAL HUGE CLUSTERS OF BOMB EXPLOSIONS BY AMERICAN PLANES ON NAZI TARGETS. AERIAL SMOKE FROM STUPENDOUS BOMBING COVERS THE GROUND BELOW.
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| 01:29:12 691.57 |
ALLIED ARTILLERY CONTINUES THE OBLITERATION FROM GROUND. LONG LINES OF BRITISH AND CANADIAN TANKS DRIVING FORWARD.
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| 01:29:24 703.57 |
TANK RIDING ON ROAD COMES TO CLOSE TO DITCH &
SLIDES IN. BRITISH SOLDIERS SIT ON TANKS AND ENJOY SEEING HORDES OF NAZI PRISONERS PASS BY. |
| 01:29:38 717.57 |
NAZI PLANE BEING FIRED UPON AND DESTROYED BY ALLIED FIGHTER PLANE. POV WING CAMERA. NAZI PILOT IS SEEN EJECTING FROM PLANE.
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| 01:29:56 735.57 |
AERIAL NAZI MUNITIONS TRAIN BEING STRAFED, BLOWS UP. POV WING CAMERA.
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| 01:30:05 744.57 |
ELS FIGHTER PLANE FIRES AT NAZI ROCKET IN FLIGHT.
ELS ROCKET BLOWS UP. POV FIGHTER PLANE WING CAMERA. |
| 01:30:13 752.57 |
"AMERICAN FORCES RACE ON PARIS IN NAZI ROUT"
ANIMATED MAP OF FRANCE SHOWS DRIVES TO PARIS BY ALLIED FORCES. |
| 01:30:49 789.57 |
MONTAGE CARIOUS SCENES OF AERIAL BOMBARDMENTS, AMERICAN SOLDIERS ADVANCING IN TRUCKS, TANKS.
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| 01:31:04 803.57 |
AMERICAN TANK-BULLDOZER USED FOR RIPPING THROUGH DREADED HEDGE GROVES, MOVES FORWARD. GI CUP THEIR EARS AS THEY FIRE ARTILLERY AND MORTAR IN FRENCH HEDGE GROVES.
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| 01:31:20 819.57 |
AMERICAN TROOPS ADVANCE THROUGH HEDGE GROVES.
MACHINE GUN CREW, BACKS TO CAMERA, FIRES INTO BRUSH. |
| 01:31:31 831.57 |
GRAPHIC VIEW OF DEAD GERMAN SOLDIER. CU GERMAN SOLDIER LIES DEAD ALONGSIDE HIS DEAD HORSE. MEDICS CARRY WOUNDED GI IN STRETCHER, FOLLOWED WOUNDED AND LIMPING GI. MEDIC TENDS TO BANDAGE ON GI'S SHOULDER WOUND.
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| 01:31:52 852.57 |
GERMAN MEDIC, TENDS TO GERMAN PRISONERS.
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| 01:32:11 870.57 |
AERIAL VIEW OF RUINS OF CITY OF COUTON (?)
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| 01:32:26 885.57 |
AMERICAN SOLDIERS, BACK TO CAMERA, ADVANCING DOWN ROAD THROUGH FRENCH VILLAGE. ONE TURNS AROUND LIFTS UP A BOTTLE OF WINE TO CAMERA. GI WITH OPEN UMBRELLA, WEARING TOP HAT, CHEWS GUM AS HE TRIUMPHANTLY WALKS, CANE IN HAND, DOWN ROAD WITH OTHER GI.
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| 01:32:31 891.57 |
"YANKS COMPLETE MOPPING UP OF JAPS ON GUAM"
LIEUTENANT GENERAL HOLLAND SMITH, AMERICAN MARINE COMMANDER, RIDES DOWN RIVER IN AMPHIBIOUS VEHICLE, TOWARDS CAMERA. |
| 01:32:51 911.57 |
THREE MARINES IN FOX HOLE FIRE MORTAR. MORTAR SHELL EXPLODING ON DISTANT BEACH. MLS GI TOSSES HAND GRENADE INTO UNDERGROUND CAVE AND EVERYONE TAKES COVER AS GRENADE EXPLODES. GI, BACK TO CAMERA, USES FLAME THROWER ON CAVE.
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| 01:33:32 951.57 |
DEAD JAPANESE SOLDIERS LITTER THE GROUND.
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| 01:33:36 956.57 |
ALL SALUTE AS AMERICAN FLAG IS RAISED ON GUAM.
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| 01:33:44 964.57 |
"SPECTACULAR FILMS OF TWO BOMBER PLANES COLLIDING IN MID-AIR". AT AIR SHOW IN SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.
DISASTER; ENTERTAINMENT |
| 01:33:56 976.57 |
HUGE CROWD SIT ON GROUND AND IN STANDS TO WATCH SHOW WHICH TURNS INTO A TRAGEDY.
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| 01:34:03 982.57 |
AERIAL GRAPHIC FILMS SHOW TWO PLANES DIVING DURING STUNTS, CRASHING IN MID AIR, BREAKING UP, EXPLODING IN HUGE BALL OF FIRE WHEN THEY HIT.
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| 01:34:24 1003.57 |
IN ANOTHER VIEW, THREE PLANES DIVE TOWARDS GROUND.
IN TURNING MANEUVER ONE RIPS INTO THE OTHER, BOTH BREAK UP IN AIR, EXPLODE INTO FLAMES AS THEY HIT GROUND. |
| 01:34:43 1023.57 |
FIREMEN PULL HOSES TO SITE AND HOSE DOWN THE FLAMES AMID HEAVY SMOKE.
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| 01:34:51 1031.57 |
TAPE ENDS.
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